Weight reduction surgery is reported to reduce your risk from all kinds of conditions connected with obesity including: diabetes mellitus, sleep apnoea, obesity associated hypoventilation, high blood pressure and serum lipid abnormalities. In addition a recent study, showed diabetic patients who underwent gastric bypass surgery dramatically reduced their risk of death. In fact they were three times more likely to survive.

The results of a recent study comparing the health problems experienced by two groups of patients, one which underwent weight reduction surgery and the other who did not, are shown in the table below:

	Weight Reduction Surgery	No Surgery
Arthritis	5%	12%
Cancer	2%	8%
Deaths	1%	6%
Diabetes and endocrine disease	9%	27%
Heart disease	5%	27%
Infectious diseases	9%	37%
Lung disease	3%	11%
Number of days in Hospital during a 5 year period	21 days	36 days